Vanguard

Role

Vanguards specialize in building up Cost. They typically take low Cost to deploy, and usually have Skills that increase your total Cost. In addition, Vanguards gain 1 Cost whenever they land the killing blow on an enemy, and their Cost amount is refunded when you manually retreat them. By default, they are unable to hit flying enemies.

General Characteristics

• Melee Physical Damage
• Medium to High Attack
• Medium to Fast Attack Speed
• Medium HP and Defense
• Low Cost, Cost Generation
• Block 1 to 2 Enemies
• Cost Generation Skills, Supportive Skills
  

Outlier Units: Rasho (Skill changes class to Fighter)

Possible Traits

COST increases +1 per enemy defeated; recover COST from initial deployment during withdrawal.

Blocks are reduced to 0 while utilizing a skill.

Block up to 2 enemies.

Vanguards

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Goblin Rider	Obsidonian Imperial Cavalry	Seals	Kongoh	Lute
Ragnar	Rook	Bashkar	Rasho	Barlitz
Unreleased	Unreleased	Unreleased	Unreleased	Unreleased

Raw DPS Chart

Keep in mind that this only charts Damage per Second without factoring in Natures, Skills, or Traits, or enemy Defense.
Actual in-battle DPS can differ greatly from raw DPS.

Vanguard	Attack	Attack Speed	DPS (Attack/Attack Speed)
Goblin Rider	285	2	142.5
Obsidonian Imperial Cavalry	213	2	106.5
Seals	299	1.05	284.8
Kongoh	285	1.05	271.4
Lute	227	1.2	189.2
Fu	370	1.6	231.3
Ragnar	313	1	313
Rook	334	1.05	318.1
Bashkar	358	1	358
Rasho	361	1.05	343.8
Barlitz	319	1.2	265.8